I recorded this on Freddie Mercury's Piano EXCLUSIVELY for Steemit.com (+ my thoughts on a 'STEEM VAT')
I Went To Bed On $4 And Woke Up With $9000
Hi! I'm Benbrick. A Platinum-selling songwriter from London. I've written with Troye Sivan, Utada Hikaru, and had my music endorsed by Ricky Gervais. Previously I've premiered new music on Earmilk, Shortlist and Wonderland.
After yesterdays response I'm premiering my new music right here
LA PERFEZIONE BREVEMENTE
A NEW PIECE OF MUSIC
SPOTIFY V STEEMIT
MY STEEMIT STORY
2 days ago I went to bed with a post about my interaction with Ricky Gervais on $4. I woke up with it at $8495.71. It hit the #1 spot on the main page. Within one day I’d made more money via this piece of music than I had in the 2 years preceding it. Of course, we can’t discount the non-monetary value of creating the relationship - but that doesn’t pay the bills in the short term.
INCREASING THE VALUE OF POSTING
IS IT SUSTAINABLE?
If you are a content creator of any description there will soon be no reason to post your content anywhere else. The short term goals are obvious, and if the user base continues to grow (like it should) then significant ad revenues will be made here too. If we are to make Steem sustainable going forward then one of the long term goals must be to increase the value of postings.
INCREASING THE VALUE OF POSTING
Unique insights and unique stories should be celebrated. We shouldn't be rewarding selfies.
I think we need to develop a value added tax. What I mean is: Does this article bring a unique value to the website? If so - keep 100%. If not - you are taxed for not adding value. We could decide who has the power to decide if something adds value by their involvement in the site - have you been here X days, contributed to at least Y blog posts, and replied with more than Z words most times? Then congratulations you are uniquely able to judge “value”. Value is subjective so we need to ensure it can't be gamed.What do you think about a "This brings value" flag next to each post?
This needs to be @fyrstikken'd ;) Great tune!
cool
And it will be, I'm guessing :)
@fairytalelife - not in chrome now oops
I WANT TO BREAK FREEEEE!
Amazing post. Freddie would have been honored.
"you are taxed for not adding value." <--- i that is kind of happening by default because you don't get upvoted. Plus, value is relative so you never know what is valuable for some. Hard to implement and a bit too exclusive for my taste.
I think the rule of "no value FOR ME, no upvote" is enough.
just my 2 cents!
Thanks for your thoughts!
Value is very subjective. We can't really tax posts like that. And, as it is now already, the whales decide what makes it big and what gets forgotten. If a whale upvotes your post, you'll get like 300$ in an instant.
BUT they also upvote trash occasionally. (then again, it's subjective)
I think the system works right now as it is. We just need more people with more voting power that will upvote posts that otherwise get lost in the torrent of new posts.
I can already see that you're going to be here a while. Thanks for releasing your music here:) come for the financial incentive, stay for the Steemian Love ;)
amen!
This is awesome @thisisbenbrick. Keep it up. I am very glad there are people like you here on steemit.
thanks @dwinblood
You earned my upvote, I bless you with the power of the incoming whales.
Yes, this is very good. I mean the whole package - the music, the post and the man behind them :)
I cri everytime :(
You have such beatiful voice mate , lets #smule it . :p good post took me 15 minutes to finish them all . keep the good post up .
What is smule?
Smule is karaoke apps , that apps quite famous in asia i think in western too . try to download that apps and thanks me later ;) .
Btw i really like to invite you to visit my blog if you got some time ;).